Hedy Fry
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The Honourable Hedy Fry PC MP MD |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Vancouver Centre |
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Assumed office October 25, 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Kim Campbell |
| Chairwoman of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage | |
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Assumed office February 4, 2016 |
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| Minister | Mélanie Joly |
| Preceded by | Gord Brown |
| Chairwoman of the Standing Committee on Status of Women |
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In office 5 February 2009 – 20 June 2011 |
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| Minister | Rona Ambrose |
| Preceded by | Yasmin Ratansi |
| Succeeded by | Niki Ashton |
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August 6, 1941 San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Residence | Vancouver |
| Profession | Physician |
| Religion | Catholic (lapsed) |
Hedy Madeleine Fry, PC, MP (born August 6, 1941) is a Trinidadian-Canadian politician and physician. She is the Member of Parliament for Vancouver Centre since the 1993 election, when she defeated incumbent prime minister Kim Campbell.
Fry was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. Declining an English Literature scholarship to Oxford, Fry instead earned her equivalent of a BA in Science in one year and went on to then receive her medical training at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland. She immigrated to Canada and established a practice in Vancouver. She served as president of the British Columbia Federation of Medical Women in 1977. She was president of the Vancouver Medical Association in 1988-89, the BC Medical Association in 1990-91, and chaired the Canadian Medical Association's Multiculturalism Committee in 1992-9. Fry was also a host on the nationally televised CBC's Doctor Doctor.
Fry sought and won the Liberal Party nomination for Vancouver Centre for the 1993 federal election over lawyer David Varty and college lecturer John Lang in March 1993. She was elected to the Canadian House of Commons, defeating Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Kim Campbell. Fry was only the fifth person to unseat a sitting prime minister, and the first to do so on his or her first try for office. Fry has been re-elected in every subsequent election (1997, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2015).
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